Climate agreements suck. There are no real enforcement provisions. Many signatories cheat. Some don\u2019t rep0rt at all. Moreover, reported data is highly suspect. It\u2019s a worldwide scandal recently exposed by YaleEnvironment360.<\/p>\n
Evidence of cheating is found in the atmosphere: Global CO2 is on a rampage, skyrocketing upwards like never before, double-to-triple rates of only one year ago, see: “CO2 Bursting into the Atmosphere”, March 22nd. This is not supposed to be happening. It is twisting the planet\u2019s climate system into a pretzel that doesn\u2019t know which way to turn next. There are plenty of reasons to believe it is going to get much, much worse. The planet\u2019s climate system is already so far whacked-out that it\u2019s breathing fire.<\/p>\n
For example, the European Space Agency\u2019s Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite registered a 705% increase in fire activity in Canada in 2023 versus the prior six-years.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, greenhouse gas emissions are skyrocketing in the aftermath of the much-touted climate agreement Paris \u201815 when 196 countries agreed to cut to net zero. Oops, wrong, many signatories are \u201cnet nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
There is compelling evidence that signatory nations to Paris \u201915 don\u2019t give a damn about the agreement or care about Hot House Earth as they cavalierly undercount, when they do report, or they simply refuse to report. As a result, UN climate goals go straight into the trash, worthless.<\/p>\n
In March 1994 the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) organized an objective to stabilize atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions to prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system. That\u2019s when \u201chumans\u201d were \u201cofficially recognized\u201d as an active participant in climate change. It\u2019s been downhill ever since. In fact, it\u2019s been an ongoing disaster. The evidence is found in greenhouse gas emissions increasing every year since UNFCCC formalized. And now, as of 2024, emissions are bordering on torrential increases.<\/p>\n
Worse yet, UNFCCC and Paris \u201915 lures the world community into a false sense of hope, false pretense that everything is under control, we\u2019ve got the nations of the world agreeing to combat global warming, not to worry. The illusion works because very little outrage about the illusion has been touted in public. In the real world, UNFCCC and the Paris climate agreement of 2015 are phony symbols of success. Get over it.<\/p>\n
YaleEnvironment360 recently, March 21, 2024, published an\u00a0expos\u00e9<\/em> about the scandalous behavior of signatories to climate agreements: “Nations Are Undercounting Emissions, Putting UN Goals at Risk”, researched and written by Fred Pearce, one of the best most respected environmental journalists.<\/p>\n The article opens by stating the heart of the problem as \u201clax rules\u201d allow for national inventories reporting to the UN \u201cgrossly underestimating many countries\u2019 greenhouse gas emissions.\u201d<\/p>\n In fact, according to the article \u201cmost countries published data to UNFCCC\u2019s website is typically out of date, inconsistent, and inc0mplete.\u201d According to Glen Peters, Centre for International Climate Research (Norway): \u201cI would not put much value, if any, on the submissions.\u201d<\/p>\n For example, China\u2019s coal reporting is likely so seriously underreported that its underreporting equals total emissions of many major industrial countries. And in the US, a recent article in Nature, US Oil and Gas System Emissions from Nearly One Million Aerial Site Measurements<\/em> d\/d March 13, 2024, exposed methane emissions three times more than the government reported.<\/p>\n One of the world\u2019s major oil & gas producers, Qatar, stopped reporting emissions in 2007. No surprise there as it\u2019s the world\u2019s highest per-capita CO2 emissions abuser. Meanwhile, they revel in billions of dollars the world pays to dishevel the planet\u2019s climate system. Even worse yet, it\u2019s believed their undeclared emissions have doubled since 2007. Is something radically amiss here?<\/p>\n The Philippines last sent its inventory in 2013. Guyana in 2012.<\/p>\n According to Pearce\u2019s article: \u201cThe world is flying blind, unable either to verify national compliance with emissions targets or figure out how much atmospheric \u2018room\u2019 countries have left for emissions before exceeding agreed warming thresholds.\u201d<\/p>\n The standards for reporting are replete with uncertainties. Even with activity data that\u2019s filed there\u2019s no way to know how much fossil fuel is burned in most countries or how much methane leaks. And uncertainties are prevalent in how activities are converted into emissions estimates. Off the shelf formulae often fails to reflect real conditions. In short, it\u2019s almost as if a gigantic Ponzi scheme oversees UN reporting standards.<\/p>\n The deception is found everywhere, e.g., in Canada, aircraft measurements of CO2 over the enormous tar sands project revealed emissions 64% higher than reported. Moreover, satellite data analyzed by the International Energy Agency on a global basis discovered methane emissions 70% higher worldwide over oil and gas fields than officially reported.<\/p>\n The overall scandal even extends to what should be \u201cpositive reports.\u201d According to Clemens Schwingshackl of Ludwig-Maximilian\u2019s University\/Munich: \u201cGovernments collectively claim their forests are soaking up 6 billion tons more Co2 each year than scientists can account for.\u201d<\/p>\n Everybody everywhere is fudging, cheating, obscuring, pretending, and\/or avoiding reality. Yet over 100 heads of state, presidents, prime ministers, environmental ministers, secretaries of state, etc. show up for the annual COPs (UN Conference of the Parties) for photo-ops. 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